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    Netanyahu support for Trump on UNRWA exposes political-military divide.

    Sep 20, 2018 4 minutes

    When the Trump administration announced last month it would immediately cut all US aid for the UN refugee agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immediately hailed it as a “praiseworthy” and “important” decision.

    Established to care for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East has long been a punching bag for Israeli politicians. They denounce it as a political arm of the Palestinians that perpetuates demands for a return of millions of registered refugees to Israel.

    But embracing the new US policy to end $350 million in annual aid actually marks a shift for Israel. It upends a 50-year old

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